NEW MUSIC: MXMTOON | VICTIM OF NOSTALGIA

mxmtoon is releasing her new album "rising" on May 20th; it's a triumphant return and shows a new, more dynamic and highly danceable side of the 21-year-old artist. It's hard to believe only four years have passed since Maia's self-made songs and videos began shaping a new sort of star through mxmtoon. But at least two of those years have, of course, passed like decades, each packed with enough worry and woe and loss and hope to catalyze aging at large. And so it goes with rising, mxmtoon's bold and compelling and wise second album, a 12-song set that looks at the hardest lessons of these recent dark days and opts to surge forward through triumphs of pop-and-disco confessionalism. mxmtoon is back with another song titled "victim of nostalgia," a song which examines time and how quickly it moves without us even realizing it until it's too late. mxmtoon tells us, "A lot of us have fallen victim to that feeling that time moves too quickly. "victim of nostalgia" is about missing the blind optimism and warmth that's so much easier to experience when you're younger. Already released songs "sad disco" and "mona lisa" gives fans an exciting preview of the musical journey mxmtoon is embarking on. This is the music she needed to make and hear after those years that felt like decades, after growing enough to know this is what other people might need. These songs collectively argue that growth is never done, that "rising" is just one of many restarts and beginnings to come.